James F. Trotter

James Fisher Trotter (5 November 1802-9 March 1866) was a US Senator from Mississippi (D) from 22 January to 10 July 1838, succeeding John Black and preceding Thomas Hickman Williams.

Biography
James Fisher Trotter was born in Brunswick County, Virginia in 1802, and he became a lawyer in Tennessee in 1820. Trotter served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1827 to 1829 and in the Mississippi Senate from 1829 to 1833. In 1838, Trotter was appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate, but he resigned to serve as judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court from 1839 to 1842. He went on to work in education until he died in 1866.